The recycling buzz has hit many people who go to festivals. Often the type of people who go to these events are open-minded and more than happy to connect with nature by sleeping in tents and such. Therefore it is no wonder why this target market has been a hit with the Eco festivals as well as the current undergoings at more mainstream festivals such as Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Reading and Leeds.
This year, the organisers of Glastonbury festival aimed to encourage around 40,000 people to head to the festival via public transport. Glastonbury also had ‘Green Police’ to look out for anyone littering or not using the land properly. To look after the grounds they used tractors that ran on 100% biodeisel in order to keep everything clean before and after the festival.
A lot of music festivals now offer to donate any left over tents to charity. By ordering a very stable tent that can be used for many years, you can get the most out of your tent by not having to order new ones every year and then eventually when it is not as effective as you’d like it to be you can donate it to charity or send it for recycling if it is in extremely bad condition.
You can change the impact of how recycling is carried out at music festivals. By taking your own bin bags you can arrange which types of materials and litter go into each bag and then take it for individual recycling. Going as far as recycling your ticket into a paper bin bag or recycling your cans and tins can help people the Green Police. Encouraging others to follow your example is an effective way to make friends - it can turn into a social situation.
If you are feeling extremely passionate about conserving the planet, you could even help clear up any litter that you see on the grounds that has not been left there by you or anyone you know. Although it is not your job, music festivals have the tendency to become rowdy at night with the more famous bands playing headline stages and people often returning to their tents early in the morning leaving left over plastic drink cups.
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What a great opportunity to address recycling. . .
I done some research recently which stated that if we recycled just our tin cans – we’d have 14 million fewer bins to empty each year.
So what sort of agencies are involved? Do they have bins just for cans? Bins for paper? I’m sure there are a number of companies that would come and collect for free as the revenue they could make on the back end would be worth the investment.
At the same time as a large company – to give something back to the community is always a feel good factor. . . ..